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John Constable, 1776–1837, British, Hampstead Heath Looking Towards Harrow, 1821

Creator:: John Constable, 1776–1837
Title:: Hampstead Heath Looking Towards Harrow
Former Title(s):: A View on Hampstead Heath with Figures in the Foreground [1985, Cormack, YCBA Concise Catalogue]
Date:: 1821
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on paper laid on canvas
Dimensions:: 10 3/8 x 12 1/4 inches (26.4 x 31.1 cm), Frame: 13 1/8 × 15 1/8 × 1 1/2 inches (33.3 × 38.4 × 3.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed on a label on the back: "Hampstead 31st Oct. 1821. Very fine | afternoon of a beautiful day, it | began with rain. Wind fresh from | West"; inscribed on another label on the back: "This was painted on Hampstead Heath | in 1821 by my father, John Constable R.A., | and presented by me to A.W. Stiffe | A.D. 1863 - Charles Golding Constable"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1976.7.103
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B1976.7.103FR
Subject Terms:: child | clouds | family | hills | landscape
Associated Places:: England | Greater London | Hampstead | Harrow | United Kingdom
Access:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:326
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Created by John Constable (1776-1837), the artist; by descent to Captain Charles Golding Constable (1821-1878), the artist’s son; given by him to Lieutenant Arthur William Stiffe (1831-1912) in 1863 [1]; by bequest to his granddaughter Audrey Cecil Stephens (c. 1915-?) [a]; purchased by John Baskett at Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, June 21, 1974 (lot 115 ‘A View of Hampstead Heath’), London, England, for Paul Mellon (1907-1999) [b]; by whom given to Yale Center for British Art, December 1976.

Notes:
[1] See label on work’s reverse, on center stretcher beam: “This was painted on Hampstead Heath in 1821 by my Father, John Constable R.A.., and presented by me to A.W. Stiffle, A.D. 1863 - Charles Golding Constable”

Citations:
[a] Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 85 (v.1), no. 21.64.
[b] John Baskett papers. Yale Center for British Art, Archives, John Baskett Ltd. stock book, 1967-1990, Box 1377, pp. 92-93 [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/3/archival_objects/3080199]

Paul Mellon - A Cambridge Tribute (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 2007-06-12 - 2007-09-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Constable's Clouds (National Galleries of Scotland, - 2000-10-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Constable's Clouds (Walker Art Gallery, 2000-04-28 - ) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

John Constable (Tate) (Tate Britain, 1991-06-13 - 1991-09-15) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Constable's England (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983-04-13 - 1983-09-04) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Ronald Brymer Beckett, Correspondence: John Constable, , Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1962, p. 81 (v. 6), NJ18 C74 A2 1962 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Christie's Sale Catalogue : Important English Pictures : 21 June 1974, Christie's, June 21, 1974, p. 42, lot 115, Sales Catalogues (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 58-59, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Constable, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK & New York, NY, 1986, pp. 137, 143, pl. 142, NJ18 C74 C75 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Elisabeth Fairman, Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, p. 82, fig. 3, NJ18.H66842 F35 2019 (LC) (YCBA) [YCBA]

Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 64, 170-1, no. IV.23, pl. 53, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Robert Hoozee, L'opera completa di Constable, 98, Rizzoli, Milano, Italy, 1979, pp. 118-19, no. 319, NJ18 C74 A12 +H66 (YCBA) [YCBA]

George Dunlop Leslie, John Constable, R.A., Art Journal, Virtue, London, January 1903, p. 8, British Periodicals [ORBIS]

Edward. Morris, Constable's clouds : paintings and cloud studies by John Constable, , National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh & Liverpool, UK, 2000, p.71, no. 42, NJ18 C74 C76 2000 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Leslie Parris, Constable : pictures from the exhibition, , Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1991, pp. 44-45, pls. 40 and 41, NJ18 C74 P373 1991 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Leslie Parris, Constable, Tate Publishing, London, UK, 1991, pp. 219, 506, No. 110, pl. 110, NJ18 C74 P372 1991 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, Constable's England, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1983, pp. 120-21, No. 41, NJ18 C74 R496 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Graham Reynolds, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1984, p. 85 (v.1), no. 21.64, pl. 267, NJ18 C74 R485 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Duncan Robinson, Paul Mellon: a Cambridge tribute, , The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge [England], 2007, p. 52, N5220 M552 P36 2007 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John E. Thornes, John Constable's skies : a fusion of art and science, , University of Birmingham Press, Birmingham, UK, 1999, pp. 246-47, no. 29, pl. 108, NJ18 C74 T56 1999 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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